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It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn’t one.

— Olive Schreiner The Story of an African Farm (1883)

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“On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.”

The Story of an African Farm (1883)

Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.

The Story of an African Farm (1883)

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

The Story of an African Farm (1883)

“If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?”

The Story of an African Farm (1883)

“Why hate, and struggle, and fight? Let is be as it would.”

The Story of an African Farm (1883)

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